GearCensus

Steam Hardware Survey, September 2025

The GPUs, platforms, CPUs, and RAM of the surveyed systems, and how they changed from August 2025.

GPUs from surveyed systems by vendor
NVIDIA
78.1%−0.71 pts
AMD
15.7%+0.46 pts
Intel
6.2%+0.24 pts

Most popular GPUs

About half of the GPUs from surveyed systems are on par with the GeForce RTX 2060 or faster.

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.6%+0.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 4.3%−0.37 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 4.1%−0.58 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 2.9%+0.03 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 2.8%−0.10 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.5%−0.21 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.3%−0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPULaptop 2.3%+0.05 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 2.1%−0.11 pts
Intel Iris Xe GraphicsIntegrated 1.9%+0.09 pts

Every GPU in the latest survey

Biggest gains

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPULaptop 4.6%+0.20 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPULaptop 0.9%+0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 0.9%+0.15 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 0.9%+0.14 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 1.6%+0.12 pts

Biggest losses

GPU ShareChange
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 4.1%−0.58 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 4.3%−0.37 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 2.5%−0.21 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 2.3%−0.16 pts
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 2.1%−0.11 pts

Platforms

Platform ShareChange
Windows 95.4%−0.18 pts
Windows 11 63.0%+2.65 pts
Windows 10 32.2%−2.89 pts
macOS 1.9%+0.15 pts
Linux 1.9%+0.01 pts
SteamOS 0.7%+0.02 pts

Platform trends

CPUs

53% of the surveyed systems have at least 8 CPU cores+1.14 pts from August 2025

Surveyed systems by CPU core count
  1. 2 cores 3.3%
  2. 3 cores 0.2%
  3. 4 cores 14.2%
  4. 6 cores 28.8%
  5. 8 cores 25.6%
  6. 10 cores 7.0%
  7. 12 cores 5.5%
  8. 14 cores 5.2%
  9. 16 cores 5.5%
  10. 20 cores 1.8%
  11. 24 cores 2.7%
  • At least 8 cores
  • Fewer than 8 cores
Surveyed systems by CPU vendor
AMD
41.3%+1.05 pts
Intel
57.1%−1.18 pts
Apple
1.6%+0.14 pts

RAM

88% of the surveyed systems have at least 16 GB of RAM +0.07 pts from August 2025

Surveyed systems by RAM
  1. Less than 4 GB <0.1%
  2. 4 GB 1.6%
  3. 8 GB 8.1%
  4. 12 GB 2.6%
  5. 16 GB 42.0%
  6. 24 GB 1.8%
  7. 28 GB 0.5%
  8. 32 GB 36.5%
  9. 48 GB 1.2%
  10. 60 GB 0.8%
  11. 64 GB 4.4%
  12. More than 64 GB 0.6%
  • At least 16 GB
  • Less than 16 GB

How the figures are counted